skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The center channel also helps by allowing the listener to localize the dialogue differently than the music/FX. When the dialogue comes from a different point in space, it doesn't need to be louder than the music/FX for sufficient intelligibility. When downmixed to stereo or mono or any other non-center-having configuration, the dialog must be mixed well above the music/FX to avoid being masked by it. Sometimes a downmix occurs without this step being given enough consideration, resulting in complaints about the mix, when the original 5.1 (or whatever) mix was perfect but an engineer wasn't involved for downmixing.

This is also what Dave Rat is on about, in addition to IM and combing concerns, when explaining why a speaker per instrument sounds better than a mix: not just that it's a single point source, not just that it's doing one single job, but that all the sounds come from discrete points nowhere near each other. Just like an acoustic band using no reinforcement.
Sometimes a camera is not just a camera
It is not in fact against federal law to IQ test employees.
Why would you showcase a bad example if there was a better one?
Privacy is a luxury today so yeah selling luxury hardware and promise of privacy form a coherent business position.
The AX series, which is what iPads were using before the M series, were precisely the chip family that got rebranded as the M1, M2, etc.

The iPads always had a lot of power, people simply started paying more attention when the chip family was ported to PC.
If you average out it is quite not expensive. Unlike android phone or let us not talk about android tablet.

The important is that a good starting ai learning platform is what … most apple does not touch those price.

Hence with privacy it is a good path.

You do not want communism even if it is not expensive in the short term.
Fan is a small load. You could run that from a generator. You wouldn't want to run a heat pump from a generator.
That is an absurdly complex regex
Kinda interesting that there seems to be a few similar ideas with
https://serviceweaver.dev/

I'm guess eventually this will be the way but not for a while.
Then I wish you the best of luck in your fight. In the meantime, don't drag me down or tell me that I'm wrong just because you, personally, don't want something that I want that also doesn't harm you in the slightest.
Mice + keyboards are good for versatility. When you need more than data entry or non-tabular (images, video) data entry or processing, having a mouse is key.
The boring company isn't move fast and break things. They literally just bought a drill and use it like any other construction company. There's no innovation at all.
That looks like a pretty neat piece of kit for a modest NAS
| this kind of algorithmic knowledge was important to build features that were differentiators in the market

I agree with this, but with the caveat that it's extremely rare to come up with a truly novel algorithm in a production environment. Those almost always come out of academia or R&D departments.

So is it important that people remember how to implement algorithms from scratch? Or is it important that they know when to identify when an existing algorithm would be useful?

For instance, if I see that something is suspiciously like a Stable Marriage Problem, do I need to remember how to implement the Gale–Shapley algorithm? Or is just the ability to recognize the problem as something that has a particular solution 90% of the way there? I would argue yes.

That said, I'm not sure how to test this is an interview setting.
Maybe the patrol cops, but your rulers still keep heavily armed SWAT teams ready to be deployed in case the patrol cops encounter real resistance.

Every country, including democracies, have deployed surveillance against their own people. Giving your rulers, and big companies, exclusive access to this technology is just asking for an authoritarian nightmare.
My last Acer lasted me six years until I decided to replace it for more power (which, notably, I would have done with a MacBook by then too). They're not as well built as a MacBook, but they're well built enough for the average laptop turnover rate.
LineageOS has an elegant solution for OLED burn in: imperceptibly shift persistent UI elements my a few pixels over time
I think this is the correct analysis.

In the context of the conversation, Blitzkrieg worked because it specifically avoided getting bogged down in heavily fortified urban areas. The German army of WWII was not at all suited to long battles like what they encountered in WWI (see the eastern front casualty numbers for a good illustration of how that went).

Stalingrad (mentioned in the article) is rather famous for being a perfect urban battlefield to grind a massive and well equipped modern (for the time) army into pulp. They couldn't blitzkrieg it, and so it defeated them.

The German Army ca. WWII's entire doctrine centered on (as podcaster Dan Carlin describes it) throwing a haymaker and ending the fight quickly. They by no means had a glass jaw, but compared to the Americans or (especially) the Soviets, they simply could not sustain a battle of attrition. And urban warfare so heavily favors the defenders that assaulting a city is almost always a battle of attrition.
But how do you waste time in the morning if you’re not concocting some over complicated drink?

I feel like my morning coffee is the one part of my day that I can control. You bet I’m gonna take my time and make it enjoyable.
The Blitzkrieg isn't a great counterpoint since the objective is to avoid frontal attacks on heavily defended positions, which is how the Germans did actually manage to get France. Using a blitzkrieg against a hardened position is doomed to failure.

The WWII invasion of France was so successful because they struck through the undefended Ardennes, rather than frontally attacking the Maginot line. In that sense the Maginot Line was actually a success, since it prevented a direct invasion of France from Germany, and forced the Germans to attack through other countries.
I keep on reading this as pdp-13, a la pdp11 computers from history
Pretty strong Opal advertorial.
The Walmart variant was introduced 6 weeks ago to offload excess stocks of a four year old discontinued model. I'm not sure your argument of "at only 70% of the price of a model two generations newer" is the sales pitch you think it is.
> If you don't want a computing appliance then don't buy an iPad.

If you do want a computing appliance, then there's nothing wrong with having a machine that could be reprogrammed that you simply choose not to reprogram. Please stop advocating for a worse world for the rest of us when it doesn't benefit you in the slightest to have a machine that you don't control.
Would you like a tinfoil hat?
I bought a used thinkpad x13 for 350 bucks. It won me over from my m3 MacBook Pro that costs 4 times as much
There are no other versions of people
This is an awesome format, esp. the diagrams. I am glad to see the tools are public: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/rfd-site
I don't understand your explanation because you just keep alluding to certain firewall rules but not actually showing them.

If you've done this, could you paste an `iptables -L -v` for me? That would make clear exactly what you're talking about. If there is a problem, I could then point it out, and if there is not, I could then understand how to do what you're saying.
This is a false dichotomy. There's nothing stopping anyone from shipping a device with software that works, but that can still be reprogrammed.
You being unwilling to spend the barest amount of effort to recycle it is your problem, not Apple's.
On Atari 8-bits, the filesystem ran on the computer itself. There was an MOS 6507 processor in the drive, but that was for communicating on the SIO bus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050
This is it. An M series air is an incredible machine for most people - people who likely won’t ever write a line of js or use a GPU. Email, banking, YouTube, etc ona device with incredible battery and hardware that will likely be useful for a decade is perfect. The average user hasn’t even heard of HN.
also, they were "in tune" and just playing in a mode, rather than a typical key.
Do Google even make $250m in profit (not just revenue..) from France annually?

Gotta love the backbone of *Monsieur Français", stick it to 'em.
Yes, it’s possible that they’ll change in the future but that doesn’t make it inevitable. Everything you describe could have happened at any point in the last decade or two but didn’t, which suggests that it’s not “waiting for the right MBA” but an active effort to keep the abusive ones out.

One thing to remember is that they understand the value of long-term investments. They aren’t going to beat Google and Facebook at advertising and have invested billions in a different model those companies can’t easily adopt, and I’m sure someone has done the math on how expensive it would be to switch.
You would think, right?

The JS runtime itself must have a constant time way to know this, but it’s not exposed anywhere. The best you can do is iterate over the keys and bail the first time you get a key. But (at least in V8) iterating over the keys does some work up front that is O(n), even if you bail at the first key!
I have a hard time reading The Culture books as anything but a satirical condemnation of the current society. Which is not at all the position that Banks, in interviews, claims to take.

I thought Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky presented a much more sympathetic picture of a cosmopolitan trading culture, in its clash (and hybridization) with a conservative warrior culture. That book did make "the liberal capitalists" sympathetic.
This is essentially what we're building at https://reworkd.ai (YC S23). We had thousands of users try using AgentGPT (our previous product) for scraping and we learned that using LLMs for web data extraction fundamentally does not work unless you generate code.
Genghis had the advantage that his tanks ate grass, and grass grew everywhere the Mongols decided to conquer.

That said, they still specifically timed their campaign cycles around the availability of forage in the country to be attacked.
And the M1 chip on mine really alters productivity. Every time we want to update a library, we need some kind of workaround.

It's great having a chip that is so much different than what our production infrastructure uses.
Most of the world doesn't care about built in. Apple decided against iMessage on Android for lock in. Android had RCS in 2019.
DeepSeek V2, near GPT4 performance with 30% GPT3.5 cost ($0.14M input tokens)
give me an example that it actually works in reality
Sounds a bit like my Intel MBP, in particular after they (the company I work for) installed all the lovely bloatware/tracking crap IT thinks we need to be subjected to. Most of the day the machine runs with the fans blasting away.

Still doesn't take a minute to launch Outlook, but I understand your pain.

I keep hoping it will die, because it would be replaced with an M-series MBP and they are way, way, WAY faster than even the best Intel MBP.
Bravo (Editor) (1974)
Beautiful!

I realize there's a certain aesthetic you're going for here, and what I'm about to propose is a prime example of a slippery slope, but if you're willing to go juuuuust a little further from 1-bit graphics to 2-bit graphics, you might actually get legible photographs.

Here's a website that I love that has a similar aesthetic; every image here has at most six colors (although each image has its own color palette): https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
If this is the case then move the cones barrels where you haven’t done any work yet. In the states you often see miles cordoned off by barrels with no work has been done yet, well beyond where any person would say there is a safety issue.
Does anyone know of other open models available for code intelligence?
I don't think that's relevant to this discussion though, as open- and closed-source subversion would seem to follow really different paths.

- Open-source subversion has the big advantage of having the code, testing and build processes in the open which allows for the attack surface to be exhaustively studied, whereas closed source requires code exfil, reverse engineering, inside intel on processes etc.

- Closed-source subversion can hide in other places -- binaries can be corrupted on a compromised server etc. Seeking to influence the code-based development seems like the hardest road IMO.

- Open-source maintenance (at least the kind under discussion here) stops at the maintainer, whereas most corporate dev is in a hierarchy with non-uniform commit authority. None of the same social techniques would apply.
Typically that concierge service would be the conversation you have with the librarian as you sign up for a library card. What kind of books do you like, are you interested in Middle East arms transfers, oh have you heard of this one, etc. If you’re 9 years old perhaps that would also involve guiding you to the children’s section, although it seems you’ve turned out alright regardless.
When I bought my cheesegrater Mac Pro, I wanted 8TB of SSD.

Except Apple wanted $3,000 for 7TB of SSD (considering the base price already included 1TB).

Instead, I bought a 4xM.2 PCI card, and 4 2TB Samsung Pro SSDs.

I paid $1,300 for it, got to keep the 1TB "system" SSD.

And I get faster speeds from it, 6.8GBps versus 5.5GBps off the system drive.

For $2,000 I could have got the PCI 4.0 version and SSDs, and get 26GBps.
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Hmm.. I didn't think to try my ultrasonic machine. Last time I made cold brew and got impatient, I just warmed it up to around 100F and put the whole thing in my vacuum chamber for a bit. Seemed to speed things up but I don't know. I don't brew enough to have a recent comparison. The result is pretty great though.
The CA $950 threshold is when the theft switches from a misdemeanor to a felony:

https://www.hoover.org/research/why-shoplifting-now-de-facto...

In comparison, Texas has a $2,500 threshold for upgrading from a misdemeanor to a felony:

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-def...
I was thinking that (if possible) adding a sinusoidal vertical element to the layers (in both the x and y axis), similar to a crinkle crankle wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinkle_crankle_wall

There'll be a limit (some point before the head hits the previous layer), but it would still help to mitigate the weakness of planar printing.
GUI apps like text editors don’t redraw frames every update cycle.
Who are you using now for mail service? I did the same and moved to Proton Mail. So far the experience has been great with the (rather large) exception that due to the security architecture email search is subpar if you don’t use an external email client on desktop with their IMAP bridge. Ultimately I’m willing to accept that compromise, but I’m open to other options as the encryption features (that interfiere with some UX like search) aren’t the main reason I use the service anyway. I just didn’t want to have all my eggs in the Google basket anymore and the privacy aspect was a nice bonus.
Not a nightmare at all - simply add more roads or more lanes on major highways where there are backups.

People have a right to travel the way they want, and pay tax money to do so.
Most of the top LLM already do this very well. It's because they've been trained on web data, and also because they're being used for precisely this task internally to grab data.

The complicated ops of scraping is running headless browsers, IP ranges, bot bypass, filling captchas, observability and updating selectors, etc. There are a ton of SaaS services that do that part for you.
> This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy

Do not believe what they say, watch what they do.
With respect to this project’s choices, I feel like HyperCards greatest flaw was failing to implement color when the Mac had begun to embrace it. By the time I was in high school, all the Macs in my school were color machines. But HyperCard never got true, native, built-color.
They’re tools. This attempt to treat them as luxury goods doesn’t hold with those. It’s entirely common for even people who want to do some home repair—let alone professionals—but aren’t clueless about DIY to spend 2x the cheapest option, because they know the cheapest one is actually worth $0. More will advocate spending way more than 2x, as long as you’re 100% sure you’re going to use it a lot (like, say, a phone or laptop, even for a lot of non-computer-geeks). This is true even if they’re just buying a simple lowish-power impact driver, nothing fancy, not the most powerful one, not the one with the most features. Still, they’ll often not go for the cheapest one, because those are generally not even fit for their intended purpose.

[edit] I mean sure there are people who just want the Apple logo, I’m not saying there are zero of those, but they’re also excellent, reliable tools (by the standards of computers—so, still bad) and a good chunk of their buyers are there for that. Even the ones who only have a phone.
Well if we are going to use Occam's razor about symptoms, I think we should apply it to the overall situation as well.

Either Sysco is engaged in a conspiracy to poison us all with sugar packets for no apparent benefit. Or the much more logical conclusion that a person put a pack of sugar into their tea, it didn't sweeten it as much as they thought it should, they then convinced themself it wasn't sugar at all and when tasting it their belief that it wouldn't be sweet biased their observation.
Is there an online demo of this somewhere?
I love the conversation going here. A bunch of socialist and communist nerds fantasize that they could build something better than what existing socialism and communism countries have done.

Try harder.
Nintendo's hardware is always crap. It's part of the philosophy which makes them so profitable. High-end hardware != Making good margins. Having engaging content is the trick.
If that was the case we would be finding globally optimal solutions for complicated non-convex optimization problems.

The reality is different, you need to really explore the space to find the truly global optimal solution.

A better explanation is that for ml you don't want a globally optimal solution that overindexes on your training set. You want a suboptimal solution that might also fit an unseen data set.
Awesome. I'm going to go tell my mom she can just pull her Nvidia card out of her pocket at the train station to run some models.

On second thought.. maybe it isn't "just like you've been doing on Nvidia cards for a while"
Is there a futures market where I can bet that this will not be utilized in the United States in the next 20 years?
I didn't like it when Microsoft dominated browsers, and I'm no happier now. I've stopped using Chrome.
My go-to first screening question, regardless of where I work, is to present some JSON from a public API relevant to the domain (nothing too crazy, maybe 2 or 3 levels of nesting max), then ask the candidate to do a filter plus a sum or max - then for bonus, analysis or refactoring of their choice.

Way too often, this results in a painful slog, lots of hints from me, and, nowadays, snippets of AI generated code copied in that actually solve part of the problem but that they don't read and therefore end up breaking.
New accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar discovered
This actually addresses a huge hole right now in the ecosystem. At the moment, Arrow treats things that are logically the same as different types, for example a dictionary-encoded utf8 is different from a utf8. Really there needs to be a distinction between logical and physical types, and it’s a big source of rough edges in things like Acero. Hacking on my own query engine on the side, I’ve put some thought into how to group physical into logical types in Arrow.

I am however worried that the place to define the logical type system might be inside Arrow instead of Arrow consumers. If everyone has their own logical type system, we’re just going to end up with the same incompatibilities that Arrow was trying to solve.
Decker's UI is primarily black-and-white, but it actually uses a customizable 16-color palette. On the community forum[0] there's some discussion about dithering and importing colored photos. Users have taken advantage of color to make some really gorgeous projects[1].

[0]: https://itch.io/t/2668739/16-color-dithered

[1]: https://crowmorbid.itch.io/desker-deckmonth
Of course it's falsifiable, start prosecuting again and see if the arrest rate goes up.
A framework to detect hallucinations in the text generated by LLMs
Awesome thanks. Given it's an iPad I'm guessing that means consumer-facing AI which is very cool.
How about IQOS?
I've seen projects to pave only a few miles take years. Not even roads that are that busy, even.
They won't last longer than a react component (that's not even the claim the linked post is making); you can just use them in a different framework, if you care about that.

...which is the point the parent comment was making.
Don't care about the grateful dead? Me neither. What you might like instead (as I certainly did) is this one-sided collection of endless forum posts from Stanley about his all meat diet: https://justmeat.co/archives/active-low-carber-forum-posts/
The money making machine Nintendo have with the Switch is incredible, and I do not think they expected anything like this. Gamers may recall that the US launch practically asked fans to take it easy on them wrt things like joycon drift as it was make or break time for the company after the mess of the Wii U.

But it paid off, and if they manage to carry this momentum over a generational transition it will be very hard to see how anyone is going to displace their position, especially with the younger end of the audience, though it seems likely most of their revenue is with the older crowds.
I keep getting "500 Internal Server Error" when trying to login. It's not logging in. I get this error after entering the "IBM verify code" which I receive in an email.
Show HN: Stop spending hours creating a daily recap podcast
How to use prepaid debit cards as a US bank?
Tom Blomfield was able to start a bank using prepaid debit cards, I would like to do something similar. But I can't just slap my logo over a prepaid visa card and expect that to provide value to my customers. I want to attach or at least monitor transactions in an app that I build. So how would I be able link transaction data to a user inside an app? Or who should I talk to?
Your ambivalence contributes little to the conversation.
Models show heat waves in north Pacific may be due to China reducing aerosols
People do not pay taxes anywhere near the level needed to maintain the existing roads, much less expand them. They also do not pay enough for the health costs their driving inflicts on the people whose neighborhoods they drive through, nor the cost of the climate change we’re all living through. Similarly, while most countries have free movement that does not guarantee availability of space to put those extra lanes - your freedom to drive ends where other people’s property begins.
You created a brochure to harvest credentials.